⎕FFI FFI r←[x] ⎕FFI y

r is a wrap containing the function described by y in the dynamic library at path x, which defaults to the C standard library if not provided. y is a vector of at least two strings. The first element of y is the return type of the function; the second element is the name of the symbol; the elements after the second are the arguments of the function. The resulting wrapped function must be called monadically with a vector of arguments.

Types

• void: C void
• u8: C uint8_t
• u16: C uint16_t
• u32: C uint32_t
• u64: C uint64_t see note
• i8: C int8_t
• i16: C int16_t
• i32: C int32_t
• i64: C int64_t see note
• uint: C unsigned int
• int: C int
• ulong: C unsigned long
• long: C long
• usize: C size_t see note
• f32: C float
• f64: C double
• c8: C char8_t
• c16: C char16_t
• c32: C char32_t
• uchar: C unsigned char
• char: C char
• wchar: C wchar_t
• str: C char*
• []x: C x[]
• *x: C x*

Note: 64-bit integers don't necessarily fit in the 64-bit floating point type that TinyAPL uses. You won't be able to accurately pass nor be returned values with absolute value greater than 9007199254740991.

Pointers

Functions that take and return pointers use a special pointer struct with the following members:

• address: a number containing the address pointed to
• size: the size in bytes of the datatype pointed to
• Peek: value at offset ⍵ in bytes
• Poke: write value ⍵ to offset ⍺, which defaults to 0
• Cast: return a pointer to the same address but with a different datatype ⍵
• +: offset a pointer by an integer
• -: offset a pointer by an integer, or find the distance between two pointers
• ⧺: increment a pointer by one byte
• ⵧ: decrement a pointer by one byte